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Older generations didn't trust things on screens. They cursed at things on screens. They could and did seek alternative opinions, though often it cost more. Su
by burfog 8y ago
Older generations didn't trust things on screens. They cursed at things on screens.
They could and did seek alternative opinions, though often it cost more. Subscribing to newsletters has long been an option. For example, the John Birch Society's TheNewAmerican was created in 1985 as the merger of two older newsletters that date to 1956 and 1965. It's now available at https://www.thenewamerican.com/ https://www.thenewamerican.com/ but you can still get the print version delivered to your house twice a month.
- taeric 8y agoThis is in stark contrast to the evidence of the article. That some folks from older generations did this, I can accept. But you will need more data than this to counter the facts presented in the article, no?
- burfog 8y agoThe facts misconstrued in the article: older people are more likely to spread news found on a set of 21 conservative web sites identified by BuzzFeed. A better way to interpret those facts: older people lean conservative. The research showed that political outlook was a far better way to predict sharing these web sites than age or even party affiliation.
- taeric 8y agoIs this just a slant saying that conservatives share more false news? That feels dangerous.
- burfog 8y agoIt's something like that. The study picked conservative news sites, then showed that various groups were more or less likely to spread that news. The most obvious finding in the study is that conservatives were more likely to spread this news, but it was also found that old people were more likely to spread it. The article focused on the old people.